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Judge Approves Apple's Plan to Pay $50 Million to Settle Butterfly Keyboard Lawsuit

So sick of lawyers take advantage of the consumers. They don't give a dime to the consumers, all they are thinking is $13.6 million in attorney fees. The government should set upper limit the percentage of the lawyer can make from this kind of lawsuit.
 
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If I'm reading it right, I might get $395 since I had two keyboard replacements. Fortunately, I still own those so providing records should be straightforward.

EDIT: I guess it's $395 only if you had two replacements on the same device. It's $125 per device if it was only replaced once. I guess I'll be happy with my $250!
 
I remember this huge lawsuit a while back that I received a letter in the mail for. Was promised $150 but got a letter a year later saying that my entire cut went to the attorneys that worked on the case, lmao.
 
TotalMacMove said:
I remember this huge lawsuit a while back that I received a letter in the mail for. Was promised $150 but got a letter a year later saying that my cut went to the attorneys that worked on the case, lmao.
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You weren't promised 150, it was the max payout I am sure. It is lowered substantially by the more people that put a claim in. That's how these always work.
 
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ProfessionalFan said:
You weren't promised 150, it was the max payout I am sure. It is lowered substantially by the more people that put a claim in. That's how these always work.
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Yea I actually put in a claim early on in the lawsuit but the fact that I got zero out of it was hilarious. The case was against a large chain gym that continued charging its customers for 4 months during COVID when they were forced to be closed.
 
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Maximum payout, key word is maximum there.
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Right. But in my experience, that amount usually corresponds with what you get. The lawyers get their cut from another bucket, and if Apple is agreeing to this, they fundamentally can't decide you get $1.63 out of that maximum amount "just because".
 
BeatCrazy said:
Right. But in my experience, that amount usually corresponds with what you get. The lawyers get their cut from another bucket, and if Apple is agreeing to this, they fundamentally can't decide you get $1.63 out of that maximum amount "just because".
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There is a finite amount of money. The more people that put in claims, the less remains for each person.
 
ProfessionalFan said:
There is a finite amount of money. The more people that put in claims, the less remains for each person.
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I understand that, but that 'claim-taker-percentage' is already factored in. So Apple probably already knows that ~200K people are expected to file a claim based on how many they replaced, and the response rate of similar class action awards. 200K people x $125 = $25M.
 
Apple repaired my keyboard free when it began to fail after my AppleCare expired, but, I also had the defective display lamination and 2 faulty usb-c ports as well within the first 2 months of ownership. Luckily I still had my old 2015 model as backup.
 
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If you think you're getting anywhere close to $395, please re-think it. Don't count that money. You'll end up getting closer to $3.95.
 
This is pennies to Apple compared to what they must have spent replacing the top cases on many many thousands of Macs. But still, good to see some official confirmation that they produced one of the worst keyboards ever inflicted on their user base.

I had the good sense to wait out this dark period by nursing along an old 2011 MacBook Air, but god, what a pain in the ass this all was. Even when they worked as intended they were god-awful to type on.
 
The only time I’ve ever flat out refused to use an a newer model of an Apple Laptop. After trying it and finding it to be the worst typing experience of my life I stayed with my 2015 until they came out with the redesigned keyboard. It has to be the absolute worst design Apple has ever had.

The bad thing is, they knew it, and released it anyway.
 
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Ive didn't design the keyboard. Mechanical/electrical engineers did.
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But probably based on a directive from the bald man himself to shave several millimeters off the switch/key assembly so it could be "thin enough". The immediate hit was to usability and tactile experience. These things were like banging your fingers on a solid piece of plastic. Before long, the delicate little switches started breaking under the strain of motes of dust or whatever. Clearly Ive intended them to be used by cyborgs living in a clean room environment, not the real world.

DMG35 said:
The only time I’ve ever flat out refused to use an a newer model of an Apple Laptop. After trying it and finding it to be the worst typing experience of my life I stayed with my 2015 until they came out with the redesigned keyboard. It has to be the absolute worst design Apple has ever had.

The bad thing is, they knew it, and released it anyway.
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Exactly my experience. I pounced on that little 12" Retina MacBook as a replacement for my 11" Air. I gave myself a full month to "get used to it" but I never did because it was horrible. So then it was back to the Air and then a used 2015 MacBook Pro I got off eBay. I guess I should thank Ive for the money he saved me by making me boycott new Mac laptops for several years.
 
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But probably based on a directive from the bald man himself to shave several millimeters off the switch/key assembly so it could be "thin enough". The immediate hit was to usability and tactile experience. These things were like banging your fingers on a solid piece of plastic. Before long, the delicate little switches started breaking under the strain of motes of dust or whatever. Clearly Ive intended them to be used by cyborgs living in a clean room environment, not the real world.
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You should quote my full reply rather than just a piece that you can refute with out my full quote.

Once more... Ive was not the laptop project manager, or the designer of the keyboard. That the keyboard replacement that came a couple years later and a completely different design works great and without issue in similarly thin follow-on laptops tells me the mechanical/electrical engineers who designed the original butterfly keyboard are at fault. If they instead had gone with a design similar to the one that replaced it, there would have been no issues.

Again, that is not Ive's wheelhouse.
 
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